Mac Forum / General / General / July 2006

Help.
I have an eMac.  G4/800.  Currently running 10.4.3.  I want to upgrade
to 10.4.7.  
I downloaded this file from apple:   MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.7PPC.dmg

I'd like to use the Mail.app to check my yahoo, gmail, and other
accounts. The delima is that pop access is being blocked. So I thought,
hey I can set up a socks 5 proxy and all I should have to do is make
some changes in my network settings. I'm having no luck. I can route

How weird
if you rotate a photo (from landscape to portrait) preview can save it,
but all other photoviewers see the photo the wrong way round.. but
preview knows the correct orientation

Well, I want to clear the clutter from my bedroom from now on.. by
scanning in important documents (.e.g hospital letters etc) and saving
them as PDFs (making regular backups!!!)
But what should I save it to - is 200dpi in colour enough

In using iMovie and iDVD with associated VOB to QT utilities, iTunes
and iPhotod, over a 4 weeks peiod, operation  slows down considerably.
Irrespercrive of the cause, I reload my external HD with SYSTEM, NOT
keeping Preferences etc. This also rids me of unwanted Photos and audio

Seems better, faster,  AFP connections are again more reliable to make
and sustain, and the overall improvement has given me the warm fuzzies.
Although, in the interest of full disclosure, this aspect of OS X has
been all over the lot with many of the interim updates. It's gone from

Is there a utility to permit distributed processing (two Dual G5's)
when neither system is running OS X Server? Thanks.
Davoud

I am trying to compile Linux drivers on Mac OS. However, when I run, I
get the following error:
Makefile:29: *** /lib/modules/7.9.0/build not found.  Stop.
This is because of the kernel header files. I need to either link to

http://www.idont.com/
"Now is the time to break free from restrictive formats and a single
source for music. It's time for choice, for freedom, for
self-expression - and for all independent spirits to stand up and say

Check out www.IPODProgramming.com

I'm having a heck of a time getting unicode codes/special characters to
work in chat rooms.  I occasionally need a special character (a musical
note, a mathematical symbol, etc. etc.) In my discussions.
I've located the symbols I need in Character Palette, yet when I insert

I was wondering if anybody knows what the legailty of using software
logos on a company website. I am building our new company website. I
would like to put that software logo image on the site so customers
know what the different programs look like. I recently had a customer

I'm adding a new (larger) drive to my Powerbook.
I have the Powerbook connected to my iMac in target disk mode and I am making
an image of its current drive (80GB).
I want to then install the new larger (160GB) drive.  I then intend to restore

I'm running 10.4.5 on a dual-2GHz PowerPC G5.
I leave it running all the time, with the screensaver set to require a
password to awake.
Sometimes, but not always, in the morning after a night of no activity

I just can't make mail.app work right with gmail + pop.
It was working  fine until a few days ago. Now it starts to dowload the
messages (authenticates fine, downloads most of the messages fine) but
on the last message it just freezes.